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in the vernacular in approximately their original senses and this is one of the circumstances which render English the best of all languages modern or ancient for modern philosophical purposes. For more pains were taken in scholastic times to make philosophical languages precise and definite than had ever before been taken since. Accordingly the rule proposed would remedy the present most disadvantageous state of terminology and [furnish?] the nucleus of a philosophical vocabulary of great perfection with the minimum of derangement of existing languages while it would be particularly favorable to the English language and would tend to prevent its follwoing futher the ambiguities and tastelessness of the German.

Rule II. For all philosophical conceptions which the scholastic terminology leaves unsignified additional terms should be provided and the terms first proposed with